umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben
The verdict
“umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 45
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: nichts ist kostenlos, alles hat seinen Preis
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 45 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben is 45 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "nichts ist kostenlos, alles hat seinen Preis".
No misspelling variants are generated for umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is umsonst ist der Tod, und der kostet das Leben, spelled U-M-S-O-N-S-T- -I-S-T- -D-E-R- -T-O-D-,- -U-N-D- -D-E-R- -K-O-S-T-E-T- -D-A-S- -L-E-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1nichts ist kostenlos, alles hat seinen Preis
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is U-M-S-O-N-S-T- -I-S-T- -D-E-R- -T-O-D-,- -U-N-D- -D-E-R- -K-O-S-T-E-T- -D-A-S- -L-E-B-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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